Noël Riley Fitch
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Noël Riley Fitch is a biographer and historian of expatriate intellectuals in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. She is the author of several books on Paris (Literary Cafes of Paris, Walks in Hemingway’s Paris) as well as three biographies: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983), translated into Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian; Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin (1993), published in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish, and nominated for the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle; and Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child (1997). The Ernest Hemingway book, a biographical and geographical study of his Paris years, has been published in Dutch, the Cafés of Paris book in Dutch and German.
Fitch was born in New Haven, Connecticut of New England parents (John E. Riley and Dorcas Tarr) and reared, with two younger sisters, in the sagebrush of the Snake River Valley in Idaho. She has lived in [[Quincy, Massachusetts; in Pasadena, La Jolla and Los Angeles, California; and in Paris, France. Her writing career began when she was a columnist for her high school and college school papers; but it was in graduate school that she discovered the story of Sylvia Beach’s bookshop on the Left Bank of Paris and decided she would tell the story of Sylvia Beach, her bookshop Shakespeare and Company (1919-1942), and the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (the 1922 novel that would change world fiction). Since then every book Fitch has written has some connection with Paris and the artists who lived and worked there, including her biographies of Beach, Nin, and Child.
Her Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child (1997) was written with Mrs. Child’s full cooperation, and is “told warmly and compellingly,” according to Publishers Weekly. Kirkus Reviews called its “details. . .exquisite” and the story “exhaustively researched, charming.” Entertainment Weekly named it number five of the ten best books of the year.
Following Fitch’s earlier Literary Cafés of Paris, she recently returned this travel genre to author The Grand Literary Cafés of Europe (London, 2006; US, 2007). Photographs are by Andy Midgley. This book covers the history of coffee and the coffeehouse and features nearly 40 cafes in 20 countries, from London to Moscow, Lisbon to Bucharest and Rome. Paris Café; The Sélect Crowd, co-authored with illustrator Rick Tulka, will be published November 2007. It is the first personal inside look into the workings and daily rhythm of a café and its famous as well as anonymous clientele.
In addition to being frequently interviewed on radio and television, Fitch appears in several documentary films, including Berenice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century (1992) and theA&E Biography of Julia Child first shown October 14, 1997 and based on her book, Appetite for Life. She has also edited books and contributed to many others. Her journalism and her writing for scholarly publications are numerous.
Fitch earned a Ph.D. from Washington State University and has taught at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego State University, University of Southern California, and the American University of Paris. She is presently writing the story of the Irish woman Louison O’Morphi [Marie Louise O’Murphy], mistress of Louis XV, model for Rococo painter François Boucher, and subject of two pages in Casanova’s memoirs. The book has grown out of many years of Franco-Irish history.
Ms. Fitch presently lectures at both the University of Southern California and the American University of Paris. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, Paris, and New York City. She has one grown daughter.
[edit] Biographical sources
International Authors & Writers Who’s Who
Who’s Who in the West & Who’s Who in Calif
Who’s Who of American Women
Who’s Who in the World
The Authors Guild (The Authors League of America)
Directory of American Scholars
Contemporary Authors
Who’s Who Historical Society
Directory of Women in American Studies
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/mpw/faculty/rileyfitch.php
http://www.noelrileyfitch.com
Books
1. Sylvia Beach & the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties
ISBN #0-393-30231-8
2. Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin
Little Brown
ISBN #0-316-28431-9
3. Walks in Hemingway’s
ISBN #0-312-07113-2
4. Literary Cafés of Paris
ISBN#0-913515-42-6
5. Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child
Doubleday
ISBN# 0-385-49335-5
6. The Grand Literary Cafés of Europe
ISBN #1845371143
7. Paris Café: the Sélect Crowd
[edit] Noël Riley Fitch collections
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[edit] Bibliography of publications
BOOKS
2007 Paris Café: Sélect Crowd. NY: Soft Skull Press. 120pp.
2006 The Grand Literary Cafés of Europe. London: New Holland 160pp
2005 La Libraia di Joyce: Sylvia Beach e la generazione perduta. Milano, Italy: il Saggiatore 559 pp.
2000 [Anaïs, Polish translation]
1999 Appetite for Life paperback, Anchor Books
1997 Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child NY: Doubleday, 569 pp.
1996 A Vida Erótica de Anaïs Nin Lisbon: Círculo de Leitore pp500
1995 Anaïs: Des erotische Leben der Anaïs Nin. Munich: Europaverlag, 704 pp
1994 Erotique Anaïs Nin. Trans. Marguerite Le Clézio. Paris: Filipacchi. 701 pp. nominated Le Prix des Lectrices de Elle
1993 Anaïs: the Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin New York: Little Brown. 510 pp US/Eng.paper ‘94 Book-of-the-Month alternative.
1993 Die literarischen Café von Paris Trans.Katharina Förs und
Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf. Germany: Arche, 1993. 93 pp.
1992 Literaire Cafés van Parijs. Trans. Jaap van der Vijk. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans, 1992. 92 pp.
1991 Sylvia Beach y La Generacion Perdida. Trans. Gracia Rodríquez. Barcelona: Editorial Lumin, 611 pp.
1990 Walks in Hemingway's Paris NewYork: St. Martins Press.
1990 Met Hemingway in Parijs: Wandelingen voor de literaire
reiziger.Nederlandse: Strengholt, 191 pp.
1989 Literary Cafés of Paris Wash.D.C.: Starrhill Press, 80 pp.
1989 Hemingway in Paris: Parisian Walks for the Literary Traveller
London: Thorsons, 195 pp.
1988 Sylvia Beach: Eine Biographe im Literarischen Paris 1920-1940.
Trans. Angelika Schleindl. Frankfurt: Insel, 492 pp.
1986-87 Sylvia Beach & the Lost Generation. 2 vols. Tokyo:Kaibun Sha Shuppan, 472 pp.
1985 Faith and Imagination: Essays on Evangelicals and Literature.
Edited with Richard W. Etulain, 180 pp.
1984 Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. London: Souvenir Press,
447; Penguin paperback, 1985, reissued 1988.
1983 Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. New York: W. W. Norton,
447 pp. (now in its 11th printing) Paperback,
1985. Book-of-the-Month alternate.
PERIODICALS
“Child in Paris,” Paris Notes. Cover essay. March, 2007
“Notre Dame de la cuisine and the Prince des Gastronomes,” Gastronomica; The Journal of Food and Culture. Summer, 2005: 73-79. caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/gfc.2005.5.3.73
“America honors its favorite ‘French Chef’,” International Herald Tribune 24 July 2003, Thursday, 9.
“A Writer’s Secret Place,” Michigan Quarterly Review. Spring 2000. pp 451-52.
“Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge,” American National Biography. ACLS. Oxford Univ.Press, 2000. pp. 389-90.
“A New Beginning for Julia Child,” AIWF Newsletter 13 (June 1999): 3. “This is Everybody’s Life” and “When ‘Biography’ Calls,” Los Angeles Times Calendar (26 April 1998): 4-5, 95-96.
“Life Lessons from Julia Child,” Bottom Line: Tomorrow. 6.4 (April 1998) 1-2.
“A Dramatic Encounter at Louveciennes, 1990,” in Anaïs Nin: A Book of Mirrors. Ed. Paul Herron. MI: Sky Blue Press, 1996, pp. 21-24.
“Julia: The Book,” American Institute of Wine and Food Newsletter (Aug.96): 3.
“The Crisco Kid,” Los Angeles Magazine (August 1996): 82-84.
“Sylvia Beach: Commerce, Sanctification, and Art on the Left Bank,” in A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture. Ed. Susan Albertine. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1995, pp.189-206.
"The Literate Passion of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller" in Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership. Eds. Whitney Chadwick & Isabelle de Courtivron. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993, pp.154-171.
"Djuna Barnes" in American Writers Supplement III. New York: Scribners, 1993.
"The Elusive 'Seamless Whole': A Biographer Treats (or Fails to Treat) Lesbianism" in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. Eds. Karla Jay & Joanne Glasgow. New York: New York University Press, 1990, 59-69 pp.
"Introduction" to In transition: A Paris Anthology. New York: Doubleday; London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1990, 11-16 pp.
"La Communion Gastronomique" in L'honnete Volupte: Lettre International. Paris: Editions Michel de maule. December 1989, pp. 86-88.
""Bohemian Paris," Paris Magazine. Summer, 1989. Special Bicentennary Edition, pp. 3-5.
"L'Entente de la Vie," Arete. Vol. 2, issue 1 (July/Aug. 1989), pp. 80-85.
"The First Ulysses" in James Joyce: The Augmented Ninth. Ed. Bernard Benstock. Syracuse Univ. Press, 1988, pp. 349-61.
"The Banality of Genius," James Joyce Literary Supplement. No. 3 (spring 1988): 13.
"Paris was matria and sororitas," James Joyce Literary Supplement. No. 1 (May 1987): 8-9.
"The Cover," Journal of Library Science. Vol. 21, No. 3 (summer 1986): 600-03.
"The Failure of Spiritual Values in Henry James's The Aspern Papers" and "The Christian as Catcher: On Reading Secular Literature" in Faith and Imagination. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Far West Books, 1985: 91-101, 13-19.
"Sylvia Beach," Americans in Paris, 1920-1939, Vol. 4, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980: 28-37.
“Voyage to Ithaca: William Carlos Williams in Paris,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle AL (spring 1979): 193-214.
"Ernest Hemingway c/o Shakespeare & Company," Fitzgerald/Hemingay Annual 1977 (Detroit: Brucolli/Clark Research, 1977): 157-181.
"A Decade of Women: A Perspective from Mexico City," Wittenburg Door Vol. 26 (Aut./Sept 1975): 18-19.
"Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company: Port of Call for American Expatriate," Research Studies. Vol. 33, No. 5 (Dec. 1965): 197-207.
